What's the difference between gaol and prison?

Gaol


Definition:

  • (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The American philosopher John Dewey once said, 'If you want to establish some conception of a society, go find out who is in gaol.'
  • (2) O’Shea’s gaoling prompted hundreds of thousands of unionists to walk off the job in a statewide campaign that essentially re-established the right to strike in Australia.
  • (3) A new prison was big news the week I was in charge and I spelled it gaol instead of jail.
  • (4) The trailer is book-ended by Tyson quoting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
  • (5) In the home of the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham – at the city's old courthouse and county gaol – character actors lead visitors through the grim dance from trial and sentencing to prison (or death) in a real court.
  • (6) Kilmainham Gaol Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy The rebel leaders were taken here after the rising failed.
  • (7) Ancelotti, who has been linked with a move away from PSG in the summer, also led the club to the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season before they were knocked out by Barcelona on away gaols.
  • (8) At one moment, we hear him reciting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, with its famous line: "Each man kills the thing he loves."
  • (9) Worse, Brandis’s Bill proposes to gag journalists and bloggers if they tell anyone, with a 10 year gaol term if they do.
  • (10) Only on the back of the tomb is there elegantly chiselled a poignant verse from 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol': And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long broken urn.
  • (11) In recent years, large numbers of South African children have been the target of state-sanctioned abuse, including imprisonment in adult gaols.
  • (12) In a letter to the then Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy, he also showed an in-depth knowledge of Irish gaols as he recommended other sites of interest in the field.
  • (13) The administration of New Zealand's first general anaesthetic took place at the Colonial Gaol, Wellington, on the morning of Monday, September 27th, 1847.
  • (14) After that he is thrice in and out of gaol for deliriously funny reasons.
  • (15) That the former English teacher should have liked the classic Oscar Wilde poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was described by one article as "Chris Jefferies' favourite poem was about killing wife".
  • (16) Another cousin, in the Communist party, was also in gaol.
  • (17) The remainder (22%) were using illegal opiates either regularly or intermittently, or were in gaol.
  • (18) And he wrote later in his famous letter from Birmingham City gaol, in answer to eight clergymen - bishops, pastors, and rabbis - who disagreed with his tactics of direct action in the street: "History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
  • (19) The refs took a little look at the play, wondering if the stick of Pouliot was above the crossbar but the gaol stands.
  • (20) Today: Kilmainhaim Gaol is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Ireland.

Prison


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
  • (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
  • (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
  • (v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
  • (2) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (3) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (5) This is Selim’s second time in prison,” says Suleiman.
  • (6) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
  • (7) Thirteen per cent were in prison and 12% were resident in a therapeutic community.
  • (8) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (10) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (11) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
  • (12) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
  • (13) A lfred Ekpenyong knows first hand how tough it can be to find a secure foothold in mainstream society after leaving prison.
  • (14) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
  • (15) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (16) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
  • (17) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
  • (18) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
  • (19) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
  • (20) Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison.